Thursday, July 15th     

COMEDY AT THE STONE PONY:  MAGGIE CASSELLA

8pm  11pm

Maggie's comedy is a mix of rants and raves from the start. Obsessed with the fact that she could get an unlimited supply of material from just reading the paper, Maggie settled in on her Because I Said So™ format of sit down comedy tearing through news topics from law, to entertainment, to technology, to religion, and finishing up with the things that just made her mental. She has performed Because I Said So™ for 20 summers in Provincetown.  Now she arrives in Asbury Park produced by AwwMamaProductions. 

The Stone Pony

Ocean Avenue at First Avenue

Asbury Park, NJ

Friday, July 16th   

LOST AT SEA:  THE OCEANSIDE KICKOFF PARTY

7:00 PM – 11:00 PM     $15

The Grand Arcade, Convention Hall & Beach Bar 

1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ 07712

Music by DJ Max Rodriguez (Splash Bar NYC, Fire Island Pines)

GOOD BOY GONE BAD  /  PISS & VINEGAR

THE ROAD TRIP RUNWAY UNDERWEAR FASHION SHOW

9:30 PM

The Grand Arcade & Convention Hall Beach Bar, Asbury Park

1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ 07712

Our popular underwear fashion show returns with GOOD BOY GONE BAD, and PISS & VINEGAR  the hot new line of Canadian tees, jockstraps, swimsuits and underwear.  Guests of LOST AT SEA are treated to this eye catching array of bodies right in the middle of the party brought to you by our underwear fashion sponsors.

SHIPWRECKED!  THE AFTER PARTY 

11:00 PM - 2AM            $10 (free for Lost At Sea guests)

The Beach Bar   1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ 07712

Music by DJ Max Rodriguez (Splash Bar NYC, Fire Island Pines)

Join your friends and two thousand guests in Asbury Park's Convention Hall for Road Trip’s most popular event and the Kickoff Party for the entire Festival.  Start the night with cocktails on Convention Hall’s newly opened north, east and south balconies overlooking the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean and the beats of one of NYC's hottest DJs. 

The restored Grand Arcade is where you can have dinner as well with eight participating boardwalk restaurants which will be serving festival style.    You'll find plenty of ocean view tables and seating around the entire Convention Hall for you to eat, drink and party all night long.    

Start your Road Trip Oceanside Kickoff Party with a spectacular fireworks display over the ocean. Our partygoers will have a front row seat from Convention Hall’s balconies and the boardwalk just outside the Kickoff Party.  

At 11pm the party continues with SHIPWRECKED! in The Beach Bar with pounding music, crashing waves, and a crush of bodies all kicking the night off til 3 AM.   The perfect start to your weekend! 

Saturday, July 17th

SAND BLAST:

ASBURY PARK’S DANCE ON THE BEACH  

Music by DJ Randy Bettis (NYC)  and DJ Keo Nozari

12:00 PM –  6PM

Fifth Avenue Beach & Convention Hall's Beach Bar

$45 in advance / $60 at the door     UNDER 25? Pay Your Age Online!                

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This is it -- the event nominated for for BEST NEW CIRCUIT EVENT in 2008 and BEACH PARTY OF THE YEAR in 2009 by JustCircuit Magazine. The hot, sweaty and sexy fun starts at noon and goes til 6PM.  

Producer and DJ Randy Bettis provides the music for the return of SAND BLAST, the spectacular gay beach dance in Asbury Park, New Jersey.  It's part of the annual ROAD TRIP FESTIVAL, when thousands of gays and lesbians from the tri-state area pour into Asbury Park to check out this fabulous seaside destination.  Advocate Magazine calls Road Trip "a high-octane weekend of beach parties, splashy art fairs, sports events, dinner galas and customized real estate tours."  Now with SAND BLAST, a daytime dance right in the middle of Asbury Park's hot gay beach, Road Trip kicks into high gear.    

Enjoy cocktails in the sunshine, beautiful bodies and the most stunning beach in a hundred miles.  With a spectacular location facing the Atlantic ocean, the glorious architecture of Convention Hall as a backdrop, a 50'x80' dance floor on the sand and the perfect music for a beach dance, SAND BLAST will be the highlight of your summer.

Saturday Night, July 17th

THE BROADWAY ROCK MUSICAL:   THE WHO’S TOMMY

By Pete Townsend

Produced by ReVision Theater Company 

8:00 PM

The Carousel Theater (Ocean Avenue at Asbury Avenue next to Paradise)

Asbury Park, NJ

ReVision is Asbury Park’s professional theater company and their new musical production of the Broadway hit rock musical TOMMY will be performed on Saturday night at The Carousel Theater on the Boardwalk.  

Saturday Night, July 17th

BLACK OUT @ THE BERKELEY

Music by DJ Steve Sidewalk  (NYC Splash Bar & RUSH) 

11:00 PM - 3:00 AM

Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel Bar  (The Host Hotel)

1401 Ocean Avenue

18 to Party/ 21 to Drink

$15   (free for hotel guest using promo code SAND)

Thousands of glow toys will light up the dance floor!  But what happens in the dark stays in the dark!   Legendary pop DJ Steve Sidewalk will rock the dance floor with pop classics till the wee hours brought to you by NYC’s own legendary BoiPary.com crew (CAMPUS THURSDAY’S @ SPLASH, CLUB RUSH NYC, DARMA SATURDAYS, SIN SUNDAYS...Along with the hot team from Deko Lounge, New Jersey’s mobbed Friday night boy party in South Amboy.  This is the ONE place to meet and cruise all the out-of-town hotties. 

Saturday Night, July 17th

CRUSH:   THE NEW GIRLS PARTY

11:00 PM - 3:00 AM

 Paramount Theater Terrace,   1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park

Road Trip Festival welcomes CRUSH to our line up as hundreds of women come together to party and play at this fast-growing event produced by AwwMama Productions. 

Sunday, July 18th

RIP TIDE POOL PARTY   

Music by DJ Vito Fun  (Fire Island Pines)

             & DJ Corey Craig (NYC) 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel Bar & Pool (The Host Hotel)

1401 Ocean Avenue

18 to Party/ 21 to Drink

$15 advance / $20 door

(Free for host hotel guests using promo code SAND) 

DJ Vito Fun kicks off the debut of the Road Trip Festival Pool Party with the perfect mix for a hot summer’s day, followed by DJ Corey Craig who headlined Sand Blast last summer.   This new event, presented by 42Below vodka, is the perfect way to show off your sexy swimsuit, dance under the sun and splash the day away.  Don't miss the closing event for Road Trip Festival!